bus lins, director ruskin here has commented about the situation of the muni's budget and the examiner, and i think we have taken a careful look at how we're spending money on our infrastructure and for public transportation as the city grows. is difficult to sit here and ask, there are a lot of great ideas, desperate, draconian cuts our school system is suffering, we have a huge budget deficit out there, we add to that, the deficit, 470 million, does not include deficit of the central subway, the projected deficit of 400 million dollars of the time the construction is done.

somewhere we have to give something up. one of the things we are proposing is to eliminate the extension to north beach for the time being. it is not necessary. you have no plans to put something in there. you'll save 70 million dollars and have heard a lot of pleas appear about how that money could be better used. something has to be given up in extending the subway to that area -- it's a beautiful idea long-term, i love it but we have to have priorities here. educating our children, healthcare, the budget officer said that we have a sequestration, 8 million dollars this year, ends in september. i have been told to stop here but we do have to put constraints on how we spend to save the city. thank you. (applause)

>> howard wong, native of north beach. i have not been in my alma mater's auditorium for a long time so thank you for holding this year. some great events that i saw in from this stage when i was in high school. it is to be known as high school for o.j. simpson, and recently learned that richard goldman came to galileo. i am an architect by training; i have worked in many city projects. when i work with city departments we always weigh different options; we look at how to spend money. when things do not make sense to do not proceed with the project. when they made sense you try to make them as efficient as possible. as a previous speaker said,

the central subway, when their word the largest contract on tuesday of this week for 840 million dollars, the project will be essentially over budget by a large about. the muni's internal memo says that they'll have 60 family dollars contingency left. our numbers indicate worse shape than that. we know the big infrastructure projects will go over budget. the federal transit station estimates that the overage could be 480 million plus. we have needs for muni. there are very simple things in life that can all do in our departments and agencies. we weigh those options. what is a greater good?

the greater good of the 700,000 riders? 700,000 riders? the nun hundred thousand taxpayers? let's take a look at that subway maybe cancel like the embarcadero freeway. so anyway thank you very much. (applause) >> good morning mayor lee, supervisor chiu, supervisor ferrell. thank you for the opportunity to speak today on work for services. my name is -- the manager of chinatown one-stop career center operated by self help for the elderly and charity cultural services center in the heart of chinatown since july, 2010.

we have seen thousands of job seekers. thank you for the opportunity to speak today on behalf of those workers who are not able to speak today about their needs and lack of access to vital, critical job training and services. this year we have had more than 25% cut, 200,000 cut it work for services at the chinatown one-stop center and hundreds of people will not have access to the vital work for services that are critical to the family economic success but only of residents of district 2 and 3, but citywide also. today i urge you to continue to invest in the workforce needs of san francisco which not only includes job seekers looking for skills of great, occasional english as a second-language training but also those workers currently working looking to upgrade their skills. thank you again for your time and for your energy and your consideration. (applause)

>> hi, mr. mayor, supervisors, budget director, kate howard and other city departments. my name is pam denenberg. i am a member of the coalition that includes -- and has support of the san francisco -- and many faith-based groups. we are speaking for justice for the whole city, for those affected by the behavioral, mental health issues, which includes many homeless people , as well as people with money and those affected by gun violence in the wonderful city of st. francis. we ask you not to cut the budget for the mental health services; the services already lacking in

terms of inpatient mental health; we also speak to you about the fact that -- was in the building two new hospitals in the city without one single behavioral health bed, -- here is an opportunity to provide some resources. we have a plan that was produced by some physicians who try to deal with this issue in the city. we met with many of the supervisors and we would like to meet with mr. -- with you, mayor ed lee and also with kate and any of the other departments. we have heard the horror stories of patients being strapped a gurney for days; or released early due to lack of mental health beds and lack of resources in the city. is a huge concerned. we want to keep funding for mental health in the budget

increasing it to an adequate level and hold federal health accountable for their fair share of charity care. call me at 415-999-2855. thank you very much for your services also. (applause) >> okay thank you everyone for coming out. that is the end of the public comment section. we are going to wrap it up, and president chiu and i will stick out here if you have additional questions. we have had a number of neighborhood groups from russian hill, district 3, a number of advocacy organizations as well and in particular the individuals that came out and did the pastors that came out to speak to us today .also want to thank the department heads again and mayor lee this is the seventh town hall, we have done this for five saturday's in a row.

thank you for sacrificing your family come as well. i hope that you will again enjoy district 2 here in a saturday morning. i to talk with you about the budget process putting on my hat is chair of the budget finance committee. for the next few weeks the mayor and his team, in particular kate howard, will work together to put a proposed budget that will be transmitted to the board of supervisors in about two weeks time. at the end of may this will be transmitted, to the board of supervisors and holding hearings every wednesday at 10 in the morning at 1 in the afternoon. open to everybody. during the month of june we'll hold budget hearings and city hall that will focus on the mayor's budget and by the end of june we'll pass out or hopefully have an agreement on the budget come from eyes, with the gold pass a balanced

budget by the mid-july at the board of supervisors, and have the mayor sign it. if you want to continue comment, now is the time to get that done either by e-mailing us, hauling us are showing up now on wednesday said the budget finance committee meetings. also as a budget chair i want to tell you my few priorities that i continue to articulate during the budget process here. number one that we have an open and transparent process, with everyone here in this room and the public at large in san francisco. will continue to do that in city hall. second of all that we manage our finances in a very responsible manner. we need to protect not only our services today but we need to protect services in the future and for future generations of

children in san francisco. lastly that we have a budget that reflects the values of everyone in san francisco. we want to make sure that everyone is included and has a voice in the budget going forward. i will tell you now as a district two supervisor, my priorities will continue to be one, focusing on district two and having a razor focus on our issues, in should the economic footing of the city is on the right track. we talk about it before but our employment rate has gone from 9.8% to 5.4% unemployment in san francisco. it has a lot to do with macroeconomic climate but what we do in city hall as well. we need to continue to put the foot

on the gas pedal in the jobs are not an issue for san franciscans. lastly we want to talk about the life issues. how can city hall make life better? whether public safety, education, parks, keeping families in town, that is my priority and i will continue to make sure that is reflected in our budget. thank you for coming out today. if you have additional questions of district two or 3, shoot me an e-mail, stop by the office on wednesdays, 10 a.m., 1 p.m. we will have budget meetings for the next month and a half. . if you have additional comments let you know at this point i would like to turn over to my colleague and it great supervisor from district 3, supervisor david chiu. (applause) >> i want to thank all of you today for participating today. what i want to do so the next two minutes is summarize what i heard from my constituents

and feedback that we heard in different months. you heard the district 3 has the least amount of open space in any district of the city ; making sure we get the north beach club house open , making sure we have adequate staffing at joe dimaggio -- public safety. , t you've heard from folks today around the issues that we continue to have on broadway as well as the fact that we needo ensure public safety or pedestrians and cyclists in a way that ensures that there is also parking for merchants. i hope to work with the mayor and the mta. when it comes to transit we know we have to continue to invest in muni. the mayor and i have a task force. you heard conversations today about the central subway . there are thousands of constituents in district 3 that are interested in looking at new options to expand the central subway and other muni

lines into north beach and into fisherman's wharf. ,we have many constituents who have talked to us about the need to invest in our children ,our use our families, and we have to make sure we're protecting our seniors. we have to make sure that our food programs are adequate. i want to thank members from the asian-american community who are here. i want to thank in particular folks who stood up for our workers and making sure we are investing in good workforce programs, in the arts, and i want to do a particular plug for language access. in the first year in office i passed the cities in which access ordinance. we have to do a better investment in that area. you elected mayor lee and supervisor farrell and i to be available to you 24/7,

but i want to take a special moment to thank the men and women behind us who do the work tirelessly and often don't get the effective date need. i have all the folks behind me on speed dial. it would give a special thank you to all the folks who do this work. thank you very much. (applause) and, to close it all off, i want to invite back our good mayor. mayor lee i want to thank you for your partnership with the board of supervisors and i look forward to the difficult conversations to resolving this budget in the next couple of months. >> mayor lee: that reminds me, the supervisor's phone bill by be pretty high. we'll have to work with him on that. thank you for coming out. if you listen to the news today this morning the city of detroit has a billion-dollar

budget; and they announced that they have a 13-billion deficit, how will they survive? although we have an incredibly larger amount of budget, we have to be very smart. we have to be very focused. we are going to balance our budget, not just for one year, for two years. we are going to pay attention to the five-year financial planning, and the best fiscal officers make sure we do. will respect the 10 year capital infrastructure planning because that is what gives it basis to talk to our voters about how to use their property taxes. we are going to get the best services out of our departments because they are part of all of you, living and working and visiting in a world-class city. in that respect, all of the summary that supervisor chiu just mention

that supervisor ferrell did with your testimony, will do our best to reflect our budget on the values that you have asked us to pay attention to. this is an incredible town. it is one that if you listen to everybody speak, it is hugely diverse. culturally, by way of needs, by way of classes, people that want to live not only in this great city, not only survive, people want to be successful in the city. this is why we are a city that is rich and services. we want everybody to be successful here no matter where they came from. so we've got our work cut out for us. i'll let you know that each member of the board of supervisors and, our office and the incredible budget team i going to work very hard now that we have concluded the public hearings. we are going to utilize our time incredibly in the next

two weeks to get the balance, but also get to it in a way that face attention to the issues that you have asked us to pay attention to. hopefully we won't have those midnight hours of yelling and screaming at each other like we used in those early days. this is a reason why we spend the time in front. let's get to our values right away; but accomplish those things that we need to do to give you faith that government is listening and i again appreciate your spending your incredible personal time and on a great, great day. go to bay of breakers tomorrow, go to the street fairs, and joy our city, be safe, calling anything on 311 when you see things awry,

utilize services and be proud of the city. will go to work for you and do the best we can. thank you. apl (applause) >> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in

that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. >> the playground and the

soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay.

>> this park is open. ♪ (calling names) good evening everybody we're going to start for real this

time. first, we want to thank the library for hosting this the library usually closed at 6 so we appreciate it. thank you for choosing to spend our monday night talking about the important issues of fiscal status of the city we with want to start with the mayor. good evening everyone. i'm ed lee i'm your mayor and, yes i'm i taller than you thought. my pleasure to be with you tonight we have the 6 and 7 townhalls throughout the city to give you an important part of what we think about balancing the budget. let me be subtle canned indicted

with you this city is on its way to economic recovery but we want everybody to be developed in this recovery. i'm glad to be joining supervisor rep 5 and 6 and, of course, supervisor mark farrell who's the chair of the committee for the board of supervisors. we're all making sure we're think spend the appropriate revenues but we do the budget it's the reflection of the values of what this city is all about we try to anticipate and listen to what the community says it important to you. kate howard our budget director

is going to go through what the budget repute but we want your feedback and we're holding those meetings around the city. i want to thank the riesh for oh, their site but giving you the biggest thanks coming out tonight. i know there's a lot of kids in the room so they want to and that we're the safe city and need the economics of the city to be sound but most importantly to be successful for everyone. maybe you came from other cities by you believe that when you have decided to live in this wonderful city you also want to

be part of a successful city and that means that anything you do should be reflexive of the welcoming of the city. so we're going to get going. i want to thank the department heads but we want to give the bulk of this time to all of you. and want to thank the office of the - the ambassador and they're here tonight to help people whose language is not the first language by to make sure you tell us what's the most and highest propriety. this is important to us. last year and the years in the past we've listened carefully and we've had a more sensitive budget and that's our part.

is a let me turn this over to supervisor representative districts 5 (clapping) >> hi i'll be brief like the mayor i can about how we allocate our resources. members of the board we look at what's most important to allocate our revenues the type of programs and i want to highlight a few things i'm going to be paying attention to. the department of health and family has said that the population in district 5 of children has decreased and therefore the amount of funding for districts 5 is decreasing. i have some real concerns about

making sure that we have quality programs and it can't be just about the number of served but the quantity. our at risk populations the kinds of things we deal with the reason we exercised a decrease in our homicide rate is because of all the great works of many of the folks in our district. i'm going to be paying attention to and in addition to the young people who are homeless in the hate. i think we have to look at the numbers of young folks who are over the age of 18 who are homeless who ran away because of abusive relationships. we have to make sure we're looment resources to make sure we're addressing that issue.

and one of the others things i've made clear is public housing is a priority to me. i'm proud to say that the mayor is working really hard. the issues of public housing is not an overnight problem nor will it be an overnight solutions. and the people those conditions impact that's a real priority for me. and one of the things we continue to negligent is our vulnerable senior population where seniors are being taken advantage of we have to protect our most vulnerable population. i'm more excited to hear with

you have to say and thank you all for being here. i want to turn it over to the budget chair mark farrell. >> thank you supervisor. don't we have a great new colleague in districts 5 everyone? so i'm the periphery for districts 2 and i'm serving as the budget chair on the board of supervisors. as mayor lee mentioned we're doing those hall meetings one on the internet and it's important to hear your concerns and your priorities in the communities. from my prospectiveful from the committee one i'll have an open and